Dear Dickhead - Virginie Despentes

Dear Dickhead

Buch | Softcover
304 Seiten
2024
MacLehose Press (Verlag)
978-1-5294-3081-3 (ISBN)
18,65 inkl. MwSt
A novel of rage, irreverence and vulnerability, exploring ageing, gender, privilege, addiction and consent, Dear Dickhead is an excoriating encapsulation of our times - by the queen of French punk literature
"The book of the moment" Sunday Times

"Highly entertaining . . . subtle and complex" Guardian

"Despentes at her very best" New European

"Full of emotional suspense" FT

"Brilliant - funny, wise and completely addictive - a work of angry, outrageous and hilarious genius" VICTORIA HISLOP

"Full of energy and blistering rationality" LISA McINERNEY

Dear Dickhead,
I read the piece you posted on Insta. You're like a pigeon shitting on my shoulder as you flap past. It's shitty and unpleasant. Congratulations: you've had your fifteen minutes of fame! You want proof? Here I am writing to you.

Rebecca Latté is a famous actress in her fifties, perhaps past the peak of her career.

Oscar Jayack is a middle-aged, moderately successful author who, in the wake of the #MeToo movement, has been accused of sexual harassment by his former publicist-turned-feminist blogger Zoé Katana.

When Oscar insults Rebecca's appearance on Instagram, she sends a scorching reply and the pair fall into a spiral of mutual antipathy. In back-and-forth emails, they vie for the last word, finding common ground in their experiences of addiction, assessing the changing world around them as Covid locks down Paris, and reluctantly beginning to lean on one another.

A novel of rage, irreverence and vulnerability, exploring ageing, gender, privilege, addiction and consent, Dear Dickhead is an excoriating encapsulation of our times and of the broken human beings trying to make sense of it.

Translated from the French by Frank Wynne

VIRGINIE DESPENTES is a writer and filmmaker. Her first novel, Baise-Moi was published in 1992 and adapted for film in 2000. She is the author of over fifteen further novels, including Apocalypse Baby (2010) and Bye Bye Blondie (2004), and the autobiographical work, King Kong Theory (2006). She won the Prix de Flore in 1998 forLes Jolies Choses, the 2010 Prix Renaudot for Apocalypse Baby and Vernon Subutex One won the Prix Anaïs Nin in 2015, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker International in 2018.

Erscheinungsdatum
Übersetzer Frank Wynne
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 134 x 214 mm
Gewicht 307 g
Themenwelt Literatur Briefe / Tagebücher
Literatur Romane / Erzählungen
ISBN-10 1-5294-3081-X / 152943081X
ISBN-13 978-1-5294-3081-3 / 9781529430813
Zustand Neuware
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